What’s On Wednesday

10 P.M. (ABC) NASHVILLE The series resumes as Rayna (Connie Britton, above) suggests taking her daughters on tour, only to discover that Lamar (Powers Boothe) intends to hold her hostage with some family secrets. Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) and Sean (Tilky Montgomery Jones), meanwhile, have eloped, and not everyone is celebrating. And Deacon (Charles Esten) reconnects with an old love.

9:15 A.M. (Cinemax) ARTHUR (2011) Russell Brand, below, portrays the boozy billionaire Arthur, and Greta Gerwig is an aspiring children’s book author from Queens who steals his heart in this remake of the Dudley Moore-Liza Minnelli comedy. Helen Mirren plays Arthur’s nanny, and Jennifer Garner is the heiress to whom Arthur is betrothed against his will. “The first ‘Arthur,’ the product of a less anxious age, managed to find a workable balance of poignancy and pixilation, making its hero at once a lovable free spirit and a pitiable lost soul,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. “This one, trying to repeat the trick, inadvertently affirms a truth definitively established in an early episode of ‘The Simpsons,’ namely that most drunks, however sparkling they may appear to themselves, are boring and tiresome to others.”

2:15 P.M. (MoreMax) EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE (2011) Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), an 11-year-old New Yorker whose father (Tom Hanks) died in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, traverses the five boroughs in search of the owner of a key in an envelope scrawled with a single word — “Black” — that he believes will unlock the answer to what happened on “the worst day.” Sandra Bullock plays Oskar’s grieving mother; Viola Davis and Jeffrey Wright are the first of the 472 Blacks whose names Oskar has culled from phone books; and Max von Sydow is the mysterious man who becomes Oskar’s sidekick. “Mr. Horn, who was 13 when the movie was made, is an attractively real-looking boy, with an impish smile and a natural-feeling directness, and he holds his own just fine, even against a scene-stealer like Mr. von Sydow,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times. But “it’s an impossible role in an impossible movie that has no reason for being other than as another pop-culture palliative for a trauma it can’t bear to face. In truth, ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ isn’t about Sept. 11. It’s about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness.”

3 P.M. (Fox Business) LIVE AT CES! Liz Claman and Shibani Joshi broadcast from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where their guests include Paul Otellini, the chief executive of Intel; Tom Rogers, the chief executive of TiVo; the pro quarterback Tim Tebow, a TiVo spokesman; and 50 Cent, the rapper and chief executive of SMS Audio.

6 P.M. (Sundance) SIDEWAYS (2004) Paul Giamatti plays a divorced, unpublished writer on a wine country excursion with his best friend (Thomas Haden Church, below right, with Mr. Giamatti, ), a narcissistic actor about to marry for the first time. Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh are the women who rock their worlds. Writing in The Times, Manohla Dargis called this film from Alexander Payne, who won an Oscar with Jim Taylor for best adapted screenplay, “deeply controlled, played with restraint and microscopic attention to detail.”

9 P.M. (NBC) LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT The squad is caught in the middle when the Suffolk County district attorney (Jane Kaczmarek) and Manhattan district attorney (Raúl Esparza) simultaneously try the same murder case — and fight to get a conviction first —with different defendants in two courtrooms.

9 P.M. (ABC) MODERN FAMILY Jay (Ed O’Neill) plans a New Year’s celebration at a hotel in Palm Springs, Calif., that turns out to be less stellar than expected, sending him into a funk. But while the rest of the family is off doing its own thing, he runs into Billy Dee Williams.

10 P.M. (MTV) WASHINGTON HEIGHTS Nine Dominican-American friends navigate the uptown Manhattan neighborhood of the title while pursuing careers in fashion, music, baseball and poetry in this new docu-novela. KATHRYN SHATTUCK